The book is a redemption story in which Gary, a fundamentalist Christian college student is disturbed by his budding sexual interest in other men. Though he prays frequently, it is quite a different episode on his knees -- in a Waffle House men’s room -- that proves his undoing. This lavatory encounter with a redneck pops the cork on a spree of indiscretions.

India Decriminalizes Homosexuality- The Delhi High Court court repealed Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that treated consensual gay sex as a crime . The justices wrote gays and lesbians were "denied moral full citizenship [as] Section 377 IPC grossly violates their right to privacy."